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President Obama is facing mounting pressure from religious groups demanding to be excluded from an executive order that would bar discrimination against gay people by companies that do government work.

WASHINGTON — J. David Kuo, an evangelical Christian who was a leader in President George W. Bush ’s faith initiative but who later became a critic of it, died on Friday. He was 44.
Mr. Kuo’s wife, Kimberly, said the...